2nd Dalai Lama

2nd Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyatso
Title	2nd Dalai Lama (posthumous designation)
Personal life
Born	Sangye Phel 1475 Tanag Segme, Ü-Tsang, Tibet
Died	1542 (aged 66–67) Tibet
Parents	Kunga Gyaltso (father) Machik Kunga Pemo (mother)
Religious life
Religion	Tibetan Buddhism
Senior posting
Period in office	1486–1576
Predecessor	Gedun Drupa
Successor	Sonam Gyatso
Chinese name
Chinese	根敦嘉措
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin gēn dūn jiā cuò
Tibetan name
Tibetan	དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
Transcriptions Wylie dge-'dun rgya-mtsho Tibetan Pinyin Gêdün Gyaco

The 2nd Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyatso,^[1] (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: dge-'dun rgya-mtsho, "Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants", 1475–1542) was also known as Yonten Phuntsok, or Gedun Gyatso Palzangpo. He was ordained at Tashilhunpo Monastery at Shigatse, and later resided at Drepung Monastery in Lhasa. He was posthumously entitled as the 2nd Dalai Lama.